Turkey: 2 Are Held in Palace Blast

By The Associated Press

Aug. 19, 2015

The police arrested two people on Wednesday after a hand grenade was hurled and shots were fired at officers guarding the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, a tourist attraction, the Istanbul governor’s office said. One police officer was slightly wounded, Anadolu, the state-run news agency, said. The police apprehended two people in an area close to the palace and seized weapons and ammunition, the governor’s office said. It did not identify the two suspects or state a motive for the attack. Anadolu said the two suspects were members of an outlawed leftist group, but the agency did not cite a source for its report. Later on Wednesday, at least eight Turkish soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb set off by Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey, the military said.

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